I Want a Better Catastrophe: Excerpt
What do you love too much to lose? Once you have an answer, then, pick it up. Because the only way the thing you love is going to get through these narrows is if you pick it up and carry it.
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What do you love too much to lose? Once you have an answer, then, pick it up. Because the only way the thing you love is going to get through these narrows is if you pick it up and carry it.
Webinar explores survival, adaptation and opportunity in crisis By Saeb Rawashdeh - Jan 31,2021 - Last updated at Jan 31,2021 AMMAN — Human civilisation has never been more complex than in an interconnected world and people have to develop strategies for the survival and adaptation to different disasters, said US environmental geographer Ruth DeFries. Speaking during a webinar organised last week by Columbia University in New York and its Amman branch to discuss her book titled “ What Would Nature Do?”, DeFries said that the nature has the abundance of time, but humans do not. “ Ho...
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